The Sun. — London, England, 1808-03-05 00:00:00

• ~ • , tiCs existed, n-the course of a debate; it would 1) often necessary to refer• to various documents, but never to qUote particular expressions from them, , unless they were before the House; and accessable to every Member. If, however, Ministers should think it neeessary to read extracts on any occasion, they ought not to de it before they should have ob - • twined 'leave of the House. Ministers contended that it would be'improper to read the whole of a document frequently, but they had not condescend= ed to specify the cases ; and 'was it not- high . time for the H ouse to d raw t h e li ne o f diStinaion, if any such existed ? If Ministers would feel: themselves `hurt by having•thewhole published, what must the ~.persons concerned feel by not ..having thb whole published. The House were bound to suppress 11 1 future. a.practice so 'manifestly dangerous.. The - .R ight flon. Secretary had. required the Gen ttenaan to prove the existence of a rule upon the sub jea, and 'afterwards to shew wherein he bad in- , fringed 'it. But he (Mr.. Windham) conceived it r incumbent on the Right Hon. Secretary to sheW the I. rule whereby he persued the 'practice, and which , Could not certainly be established by the few.solitary Initaitees that had been referred to in the course of debate. It could not be denied but the praelice had ticeisioned very great injustice to Lord Howick and . Mr. Garlicke. ' • • The CHAIWELLOR of the EXCHEQL/E1 tires confident that his friends could. not possibly , say any thing that could place:the condua.of the Right Hon: Secretary in a better :light than he had done himself. Of all the charges brought against Mi htsters, ,he did not recoiled 'ever to have seen any so Slightly, founded as the present. The. Conduet of the Gentlemen opposite. appeared to him to resemble that of a barrister prosecuting a nonsuit, wtereevery OtP betrayed the weakness of the CAUSe:AV:litt.'Was the substance of the charge ? It 'the, reading Of the Papers alluded-to was objectionable becatiliey were eitraas, it-would be the same with.,tegard'te almost all the Papers laid - before Parlianiinti- . t . Thq Itight Hono ura bl e G ent l eman w h o h a d spoken• list had said, that although no line was attuallydrawn, 'et .that a line certainly existed. Tliis he was Willing to admit, and that it was discretionary in the !light Hon. Secretary to fiet it;And if any:other line, ;''ere Proposed to b e dra w n ; by adopting that Reiolu ' '"eh; it 'would thenceforward be impossible for the .hous e to receive any communication. The Learned gentleman had admitted cases to have occurred of e Piaaice which he their wished to abolish,' and' + ha Journals of the House did not show that 'any bensure had then been passed upon it. He could hot web the danger of continuing the pra6ice, as it *di in the power of every Member to judge.of the 'degree of credibility to be given on such occasions as it might be used on. That; practice had; to the best of his recollection, bean used during the whole of his Parliamentary experience; and wish regard t 6 1 , Mt, Fox' s o pi n i on o f t h e i mpropr i ety o f M r. Secre-. ' -tary Dundas's reading partial extraas from Official • •Dtspatches; it was to be recolleeted that Mr. Fox's Spinach was not the sense of the House. - Mr. WHITBREAD supported the motion, and laid; MK Pitt never Made use of the praCtice in dis bqt Ott one solitary occasion. Mr. Pitt • .calledon the House to con fi de in his fidelity, b u t Neverread any further extraas; nor produced Papers. I :ll, , etinduet of Mr. S e cr e t ar y C ann i ng Was most .4traOttlitiaty ; although It bad been frequehtly com tkineci that Lord Howick and Mr. Uarlieke had ?° l ll much aggrieved in_ their public charkiet, no steps 'had been taken by him to rem ove i t ; but ""im he finds his own-charader implicated, he im ftl-'sliately prOducea the Paperi he had formerly rea used. He therefore urged the propriety of prevent lag such arbitrary condu6t in future. . . bASTLERE4GH - opposed the. tnotion, the satire ground as Dar. PER C.IWA L. • • ' ilir. STURGES BOURNE :also oppose d the In otiort, 'which, he said tended to'establish ?tin tiPle hitherto unknown in the History,- Of- Pailia ,_lllen t. He likewise deprecated--the mairy personal:, 'unsure & that had been made during the . debate. Mr. ADAM s h ort l y rep li e d to the Orititis'argtirriats I P inst the motion & and the die4iou being then called '4, there appeemb ' lor,the previous question,- - r6B • • • Against it, - . . — 67 ?vlajority whilel 6l3 , the Gentlemen of the Minority,were. in the „ Mr.-Porzsony addressed them Ceritle-• we n tu „ $ do not go away ; it is .possible .thpt even ,?!S late hour the Chancellor of the Exchequer may ;Tog on the consideration of the. Report of the t h r fi er s of Council Bill, though I should „hardly elak would be sci 'unreasonable. .But. ;if he ouid to be, we must convince him that we are able up as well as he. ,, . . i ln i f l'he gallery was not re-opened.—Adjourtica at Past one , till Monday. ; ~'' BD 3 Cottcnburß , ~ i Waterford. Dui. Cotten burgh, 1 Dublin, i Waterfor4. PRICE OF STOCKS vitis bAlf Ar iwsz.vt o'cLocK. Consol s — 63 i b 4 T E SuN. . SOLLNI le DICLRE Thcsuhi AUDSAT LOXI)OsV ;. SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 11304, Ir Is new ascertained beyond a doubt that the j 4 ochef ort S quadron passed the Gut on ttie'ißith of allu arY, in a gale of wind frora the Westward, and thick weather. „ Tll6 following . Leiter was this rvornipg • 1 1 91e4 'P at 1,10 .8;- ‘ 4 dibrattar. th Feb. 1808. , " Yosterclay Si r RiCHARD STRACHAN passed to the E astward, with seven sail of th e lino, chase /31 the French, but he is a long way belind:' ow.,.....gieerm.r• • ltErrtitS received Ali morninklit the East India i n „ - mso state,. that the Ships Glory, Northampton, d'in, Sardi& Christiana, Di ana , Si r Wm. Pulteney, , :.; 1 Union, eutward-bound, arrived - at Tablel3littlie' Ail beeember hist; under convoy of Ws fsililjelVs SLIP illonmoulh. . " ' The kiventut:e Whaler, Capt. %Rita tt,„ arrived it Helena the . 7th Oeceniber; We this niorning received the fdliciwitig Letter from Yarmouth, containing' an. account of a canal gallant a&ion performed by His Majesty's Sappho, of 18 guns, in egging and , capturing a Danish Vessel of greatly stiperior force : . . " YARMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Arrived this Morn; ing His Majesty's Ship Sappho from a Crnize, with a large Danish Brig of War, of 30 guns, twelve Is.. pounders on her main4ieck, and eighteen long to's on her upper-deck, with a compienient 1 . 20 men, which she captured in the North Sea, after an ac tion.. of an hour and a quarter. She had her Se cond. Captain and one man killed, and to men wounded. The Sappho had none killed or wounded. The Brig had captured five Merchantmen, and had .go men on board when captured. She was attempt.: mg to go North about, and bound for the Isle of France. • Lan' . night three Afaiii from Gottenburgh arrived, the contents of which are not of very great, im portance. The report of Russia having declared War against Sweden appears to have been without foundation, but from the obedience which the Ena peror ALEXANDEtrontinues to manifest to the orders of BUONAPARTE, there can be little doubt that the *War will, commence as soon as the season will per mit the Russian troops to ad. BUONAPARTE ap pears determined to omit no opportunity . of making 'the Emperor ALEXANDER feel the state of degrada tion to which.he has. voluntarily reduced himself. The Russian troops 'in Italy, which were under marching orders to return to Russia, have received counter orders, in consequence of BUONAPARTE find-. ing it necessary that they should rettain in Italy. It: is said that near 40,000 French troops are on their march to Zealand, for the'purpose of invad ing Sweden ; but we entertain very little apprehen sion that they will succeed, as the Swedish Fleet is nearly ready for sea., and a considerable force will very shortly sail from, this Country to the assistance of his Swedish Majesty. WE understand that General JUNOT has dissolved the Council of Regency, which the PRINCE REGENT of Portugal appointed before he sailed fin. the Bra.; zili, and has assumed to himself oche absolute corn. maud in that Kingdom. The mis'ery"of the people is almost 'beyond description, from the scarcity of provisions, and the severe contributions imposed by the French. • AK Attierican Vessel frotn• Charente, bound to Teneritfe, has been • brought 'into Plymouth; the . Captain states, that the Embargo upon Atiterican and 'Bremen Vessels has been taken off in the Ports Of 'France. ThiS morning arrived a Mail froM the. Leeward Islands., brought to Falmouth by the Pri nce s s Char toile Packet, in 36 days. The letters will be deli vered on . Moticlay. Yesterday Morning his MAJESTY, th tThke of KENT., PiiIICC3W G S AUUSTA,' SOPHIA, and AMELIA, accompanied by the Ran. Miss EGERTON', Generals MANNEUg and FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR , . rode in Windsor Great , Park, and returned again to the Palace. • The QUEE'd, and Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, Walked to Frogmore LOdge, and hack, ac- Companie& by Lady ALBINA CUMBERLAND. After the PRINCESSES returned with his-MAJESTY; they rode.to Frog More, to the QUEEN, accompanied by the Son. Miss EGERTON and , Col, TAYLOR, and re turned' to the. Palace to dinner. An immediate embarkation of troops will take plaCe for Sweden. The Militia Regiments are-leav irig Margate, Ramsgate, and peal, to make thorn for troops of the line destined for that service. The b2d.regiment occupies the quarters lately . occupied by the West York, and is, we stippose, destined for embarkatioh. The Brigade of Guards at Deal and Chatham is also supposed to be going ; it is about 5900 strong., The over•sea Pilots have been en griged.te cOncluCt Ships to the Baltic. Yesterday, a Court of Directors *as held at the East India House, when Captain THOMAS • Pitleß, Qi"the Ship 4lexantler, took leave of the Court pre viouslO departing tbr Madeira and Botnbay.—The • Court adjourned at six . o'clock till Wednesday next. On Thursday a Committee of the Privy Council . met at the Cockpit, Whitehall, which was attended - by Earl CAMDEN, the . Loan PRESIDENT, and. Lord Witiv.vottni ; Sirs W. GRANT, W. SCOTT, and WWI-Nice ; when tiieir Lordships proceeded to hear two Plantation Causes, Dixon against the Attorney- General of Trinidad, in Which Mr. An4r4 was heard at considerable length. Their Lordships took time to-eensider the case. A cause from St. Christopher's was the other, JOHN IRELAND against JOHN Tow gas,- which their Lordships were pleaSed to reverse. If Mr. CAt.CitAy'r proves himself no better versed in Admiralty business than he shewed himself a feW nights tigo .it the Ordnance department, we have no doubt Mr. PoL' will give him another lesson, from which it is hoped ho will derive considerable advantage. • According to the Accounts laid before the Honse of Commons, our regular Army has been increased, from the Ist of July last to the Ist of" February, 'not less than the ,unexampled number 'of 91,000 men ; making a grand total of 306,760 rank and file. We stated some days ago a report of fitimu- , rARTH having left Paris for Bourcleaux. The ru• mour is very probable ; Letterer from our Fleet elf Lisbon state, that he was expeeled at Madrid the latter end of 'January, to arrange, in all likelihood, the affairs of Portugal ; and the plan lie has in Con templation, of adding some of the Northern Pro vinces of Spain to France. . • e ..• NAVAL ,N'.E W.S. PLYMOVIII, the American Ship 4llaraic, GOVER, laden 'with, brandy and. w ine, trom Charente, boUnd.to Teneriffe;detained by the Growler Gun-brig;--By • thin- iesseil intelligence is received, that the erribargbytitiAtnetican and Bre: men vessels — is taken off in all the French ports . ; but that .• a Bremen vessel, laden with wine; had sailed - from Bourdegtix, atid'a few 'dayS afterwards returned thither, owing• to contrary _winds, when the master and crew were examined,.. and it came out, that the vessel had, tvhile at 'sea; been boarded by an English privateer ; the ship and,cargo were therefore condemned. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4.--Arrived this: day the Alargaretta, JAMES, from. Cork ; Farmer, STEWARD, from theDoWns ; Serpent, SHARD, from Liverpool ; Elizabeth, Wan, from Woolwich ; Friends, BER• -RY, "inn, FENWICK, from Sunderland ;.and PITTS, IYOrrs pyrnolltil ; Friendship, LINGHA MS, from London ; Ran, IklmcitEm., from Berwick,; 2nd, Tyne, WRIGHT, from Newcastle. Sailed the Three Sisters,' ChiLsoN, for Sunder land, .and Fortuna, for London. • FALstount, MARCH 2.,--Arrived this evening the Princess Charlotte Packet, with. Mails from the Lee- Ward Islands, 37 days passage from St. Thortias's;.-4 She bringi an account of the capture of the Duke of Montrose Packet. Capt. DYNLEY, by • the French Privateer La Confance, 7 guns, and 90 men, after an aaion of two hours and a halt, in which Capt. his mate, and four of the crew fell. The Packet was carried into Guadeloupe. The Princesi Charlotte Packet left Barbadoes 23d December, at which time was lying there his Majesty's Ships Cerherus, and Dart Sloop' of War ; on the 27th December arrived at Barbadoe3 his Majesty's Ships Diamond and Nimrod, with a French Schooner Privateer: Sailcd the True Briton PI ivateer on a cruise. SHEERNESS, MARCH of the Gun-brigs here are ordered to take on board two long eighteen pounders each, and are to be employed in the Baltic,. TheFire-vebsels and all . the small craft are littihg for that station with• the utmost dispatch, and a large Fleet is expeded to aecompany them, under the command of Admiral oAMBllift, who is to. hoist' lis . Flag'ott board the Acl4?ry, .016 late Lord. 1N181. 7 SUN'S Ship. • • Sailed the Spi(fire SlOop of \Var for the Norill Sea dfiELSINGBURGITIFEB, Freneh Privateer, of, 16 . gum, is urriveci at Stpvanger, after having cap• Lured the Andalusia, Beiry Castle, and the ,E4mund and Mary. An English Brig, from Archangel, ha 3 also been carried into Norway by a Danish Privateer. DEAL, MARCH 4.—Sailed His Majesty's Ship :Nagle, with the outward-bound,. &c. gnder convoy for Portsmouth. Arrived His *Alajesty's Ship Pigeon, from tlfe Northward, and remains in the Downs with the rest of the Ships as per last. His Majesty!s Ship Nimrod captured the French PriVateer Schooner .IVouvelle Enterprize, of 5 guns and 45 Men, on the t6th December, ninety tb the windward of Barbadoes, after a clufce of two hours. His majesty's ship Hawke sailed from Bar badoes on the sth linuary, with the trade to Gre nada; &c.; and al4u his Majesty'a' Ship Satellite, with the tradetoTriniclid, Tobago, &c, Letters were received yesterday from Cadiz to the 3d ult.; they state, that the late French Decrees had been promidgated there at the instance of the' French Government: It was the general Opinion of the Merchants that all intercourse with this Conn . - try woald soon cease. Nothing could prevent it, provided a rupture takes plaoe between Great Britain and America. The two armies .already' thrilled in. Spain are under the command of General DE Mo. eey and General MOUTON. Tire ORATonto.--The regular season for this sublime .entertainment took place last night at Co vent-Garden Theatre, :under the .direaion of the Atut.aYl, whose respective abilities'and long .expe rience amply qualify 'them for. the task... Thi Creatioz4 of HAYDN , was tho . compoiition perfortn ed on this occasion. 'lt is a noble work, and Wi'is well supported by. the Performers ; BRAIIAM, in patticular, displayed great excellenee; and almost his airs were encored : Mrs. DIC!tONB also receiVed a very favcatrable reeevtion, as well as Madam e MURK ? Mrs. BLAND, BELLAMY ? &C. &C. There was a very numerous audience, who testified high admiration of the Performances. A cause is to be tried at the ensuing Astiies for Cambridgeshire, wherein an eminent Fanner is the plaintiff, and a Clergyman defendant; for the Tat ter's !giving seduced ihe daughter of the former, who lays his damages at One Thousand Pounds A few days since, Mrs. Baillie, wife of Captain Baillie, of the nth Regiment of Dragoons, travelling over Kilworth Mountain, accompanied by her maid and child, was stopped by a party of highwaymen, an,.l robbed of lick money, watch, jewels, &c,-- The two leading horses of the four she drove with were shot ! This toad has been for some time in fesl44bY a si ng l e hi g hwayman, armed a. ith a blurt derbuie, who challenged the travellers front the hedge, and made them deposit their property on the roada-mrli.fnhesnifered them to pass on o and initroh ed off with his booty. GOTTENBURCIT VENIck?, - *JAN. 22.---A report is current here; iht‘t in a certain case a conaidtrable corps of Bava- Tian froops , will occupy the Venetian Territory: dtir coasts are still sufficiently sectue from the English ships'of war, but we ktuow that there is ati Enerny'i squadron cruizing off Corfit. • HANOvna., •FEB. thotisancl pe,isants• are daily employed in the deinelition of the. fortifications • of Hameln, and it is said that the number o-werk men will he stilt further increased by other pet,isanm • . whei Will be brought from the eoantryaf Lunenhurgh; and even from the Duchy ot_Brunswick. The ma-, gazines of the place will, we are assured, be sold by 'an&ion,' and their PrAnce be applied to the ei.". pencei' of the demolition. It is said that the ar,til- lery will be removed to Wesel. As to the pile: r materials,. as palisadoes, iron, stones; &e; they .will be sold publicly on the 15th of this month. thisstm, JAN, 3 1 .-031 the 24d inst. his Majesty issued a decree abolishing feudal services in 'the kin . gdorh of Westphalia. By another decree, issued on the_24th, an amnesty is granted to all deserters, as also those who have' quitted their homes, after having, been disarmed rit,, rriade prisoners 'by the French troops. From this amnesty, however, are. excluded all those who are now iu the' service of Great Britain. A third:Decree,. pnblished on, the 27ih, abOlishei all . the taxes 'levied on the Jews who pass -through the 'Country. In . this Decree is the following De claration Our SubjeEts, who are attached to the religion of Moses, shall enjoy the same rights anal .privileges as our other- Subjeas : they. may marry without obtaining, ai,fortnerly, a particular paimia sion for that purpose. They shill have the liberty of taking care of the education'andestablisbm :tit of their children, conforming-only' to the laws - of the Napoleon codd they may also fix their residence ut any city or place They may chuse, and there carry on their trade, observing the regulations . , of the cor. porations and cotnpanies.inlo Which they desire tot* received." BANKS tiF'7HE JAN'E,29.-If we tithybe lieVe some of the Public Journals, Prince AVILLiA:ki of.Pausst4 will occupy an apartment hi the Thuille- . ries, and. have a Gnard of Honour. The National , Gazette contains the following article: - "The city of-Gottingen must give, as its share .of the ,war contribution imposed on the country, tile sum of 308,000 Gores,. cnd the University -37j,u00, in the whole 486,000 This must be paid at thrde instalments ; on the I'll . , the tOth, and the W4ll .of i rebruary, As to.that'of, 178,000 lyres .imposed On the University, k shall. be divided among thelorty studeno,and some Professors, who shall pay each from 4000 6000 livres, according to their fOrtune." 'JANUARY 7. --- The Lesser Conneil of*the Orisons, on the recommendation of the Lanilarrißlann, has• notified to • the 'Religious Sot oiled liedemptionists, an order to quit the Coun try, and 'on the totlf _of Nciscipbe'r last, they obeyed, without resistance or disturbance. They took the road of the Valais. As to the cause of the exile) of the Bishops of Coma and BRIXON . , it is now known that they had consulted the CoUrCof Rome on the , question whether therought tp obey the civil authorities in what regards their. Ministry; and' having received for answer that it was 'better• to obey God than man) they disobeyed the Government, which' in consequence punished them with-banish ment. COPEN4AGRN, Fzu. 2.--Hie 'Seren'e Highness Prince CHRISTIAN, of Schl6swi t ck Holstein, Com-. mender in Chief of Norway, has published an ,energetic address to the inhabitants, in Whicn he calls on them to fit out privateers.---" This," says the Prince; i‘ is„the.only means • of, preventing the enemy from making their appearance off our coasts.'' His Serene Highness also prOmises that the Go veiinment shall furnish, as `much as shall be in its power, arms and anmiunition to those who shall fit out privateers. They write from Konigsburgh, that besides the small number of English Prisoners who live there at their own expellee, the Government of Norway .maintains 2'4 persOns, as well English Merchants its Captains of. Ships, Pilots, and Sailors. The loises which the city o f C open h agen has suf.,, fered by conflagrations, within 14 years, is estimated. at 30 millions'ofrix dollars. The buildi ug o f the Pa ?ace of Christianberg, which wasburnt in 1794, cost ) , we are assured, 15 millions. The houses burnt ini79s were insured for the sum of 4,629,650 rix-dobars dud the public % and private eddiees destroyed by the' last bombardment were insured for 2,403,WW dollars ; all of which amounts io, the enormous stria of above 22 millions of tix-dollars ; to which, if we 'add the Value of the moveables burnt in the PalaLe of- bhristianburgh;- and in the private .holises, and consider that the sum insured is never equal to the real value, we may boldly, and without i`ezr olexag. geration, estimate the total loss, within ~this period, at oc millions of rix -dollars. Vpt 014 reftliilltiet of the Foreign F.e: th e 1, 1 ,* P4gel